At 12:56 PM 11/25/03 -0500, Sunder wrote:
Um, last I checked, phone cameras have really shitty resolution, usually less than 320x200. Even so, you'd need MUCH higher resolution, say 3-5Mpixels to be able to read text on a printout in a picture.
Add focus and aiming issues, and this just won't work unless you carry a good camera into the booth with you.
Ever hear of Moore's law? How about electronic image stabilization? Piezo gyros optional. Don't you think the cellphone folks will do the more-pixels-game, trying to add features that distinguish their model from the nearly identical other models? Related: There are plans to put a couple of cameras in autos, to check where the driver is looking at, wakefulness, etc. All by 2010. (Src: EETimes) And you thought car telemetry recorders were privacy concerns. (There are *already* dozens of microcontrollers in low end cars, a hundred in high-end cars. So much for TJ Watson's "the world only needs five computers"...)